Chissà fuori cosa capita, qui dentro ecco cosa ho wisto nel Web.
Pearls Before Swine for April 11, 2021
social media
::: _juhan
What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me?
Julian Assange | Facebook
::: noamchomskyT
You will never read an editorial by #WashPost asking the US government to stop killing Julian #Assange slowly, as the Wash Post editorial board for #Navalny. They ignored that according to protected witnesses UCGlobal discussed with the US plans to POISON #Assange
Julian Assange
::: SMaurizi
The fine is unlikely to make a substantial dent in Alibaba’s fortunes. (...) the amount represented 4 percent of Alibaba’s domestic sales in 2019. The company reported profits of more than $12 billion in the last three months of 2020 alone
Cina | economia, lavoro
::: fabiochiusi ::: ilmanifesto
As a developer you mainly have 1 job: being able to learn new things fast. You never finish learning. That's why you don't learn anything useful about programming in school. In school you learn how to learn. Because things radically change every 5-10 years, you're never "done"
programming, codice, snippet | scuola, educazione, cultura
::: flaviocopes
A downside of NFTs, for me: I've had to unfollow various artists who went from posting cool art & thought-provoking tweets to nonstop pumping NFTs. Wish we could just buy subscriptions to an artist's feed so they could get revenue without having to resort to pump & dump schemes
non-fungible tokens
::: fchollet
If you modify a complex piece of code, and your tests pass on the first try
serendipity: mi (ahemmm, ci) è capitato la settimana appena passata 🤓
programming, codice, snippet
::: fchollet
Elon Musk's Boring Company Finally Unveils Las Vegas Tunnel
protagonisti
::: Slashdot
Scientists Connect Human Brain To Computer Wirelessly For First Time Ever
tecnologia
::: Slashdot
More than 3K reports created by the @cauldronio users community about #opensource projects in 1 year. And now, you can easily explore all of them
open source
::: jsmanrique
One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974)
storia
::: MauroV1968
Panetta: In the coming months we will decide whether to start investigating a digital euro – a form of money backed up by the ECB that allows Europeans to make secure digital payments
digitalizzazione | Unione Europea
::: ecb
GitHub successfully convinced an entire new generation of developers that they can’t do open source without being on their platform. That’s terrible news for the future
programming, codice, snippet | open source
::: sircoma
The right to repair is nothing more than the effort to reinstate the individual’s rights of ownership
diritto di riparare
::: MayaPosch
Facebook ha speso 23 milioni di $ per la sicurezza di Zuckerberg nel 2020. Sapete quanto ha speso contro l’#HateSpeech in Italia ? Zero dollari 0$ #facciamorete
Facebook | privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: alex_orlowski
Ada Colau sindaca di #barcellona abbandona @Twitter per che motivo? Per l’odio i fake e tutto il resto che sappiamo benissimo. Una brutta giornata se sui social vince l’odio
odio, razzismo, discriminazioni
::: alex_orlowski
Here's an interesting graph that illustrates how much more popular video-sharing website YouTube
umorismo
::: Michael1979
#otd in 1980 a Japanese computer scientist published a paper proposing the “Neocognitron,” the neural net that directly inspired CNNs
machine learning
::: MIT_CSAIL
Personal data of 1.3 million #Clubhouse users leaked online
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: securityaffairs
Linus Torvalds on where Rust will fit into Linux
linguaggi di programmazione | Linux | protagonisti
::: rouge2507
Google Accused of Secret Program Giving Them an Unfair Advantage in Ad-Buying
::: Slashdot
Attackers Can Now Remotely Deactivate WhatsApp on Your Phone
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot
US Prosecutor Urges Crack Down on 'the Scourge of Online Scams'
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus | Web, Internet
::: Slashdot
Why We're Freaking Out About Substack
Web, Internet | media
::: Slashdot
How Union Organizers Will Continue Their Fight With Amazon
Amazon | lavoro
::: Slashdot
Una lettera d’amore di Torvalds - Perché programmare, scrivere linee di codice, fare scelte tecnologiche può, sì, risolvere problemi, ma può arrivare a costruire mondi. "If you’re good enough, you can be God. On a small scale"
programming, codice, snippet
::: SparkFabrik
Ogni robot ha una preoccupazione: che fra una decina danni un robot saprà fare il lavoro di 10 robot
robots, automazione, droni
::: AlienoGentile
Boost your LibreOffice skills! Our documentation community has released the LibreOffice Writer Guide 7.1 – covering styles, illustrations, indexes, tables of contents, master documents, form design, document automation and more
manuali, how to | applicazioni, programmi
::: libreoffice
Revealed: the Facebook loophole that lets world leaders deceive and harass their citizens
::: guardian
I Thought My Job Was To Report On Technology In India. Instead, I Got A Front-Row Seat To The Decline Of My Democracy
Google | politica
::: fabiochiusi
rumbles of GCC possibly dissociating itself from the FSF and GNU continue
open source
::: andywingo
Are Silicon Valley Tech Workers Now Swarming 'a Reluctant Austin'?
economia, lavoro | lavoro
::: slashdot
What was the worst version of Windows, in your opinion?
sistemi operativi | Microsoft
::: PCMag
1 di 23. Russia, 1939. Alcuni prigioneri politici sono ai lavori forzati in una miniera della Kolyma
che storia Andrea!
spazio, esplorazione | protagonisti
::: a_a_f_t
Raise your hand if you have a pile of unwanted e-stuff, after a lockdown clearout
umorismo
::: RestartProject
France To Ban Some Domestic Flights Where Train Available
ambiente, ecologia
::: Slashdot
Lisp for numbers
linguaggi di programmazione
::: stylewarning
l Giappone ha deciso che l'acqua contaminata dalla centrale nucleare di Fukushima non pone problemi di sicurezza, e che quindi la riverserà nel Pacifico. I Paesi vicini obiettano, ma per ora non possono impedirlo
ovviamente dipende dalla valutazione della radioattività, naturale e indotta da rilascio
ambiente, ecologia
::: AlienoGentile
A new documentary highlights the visionary behind space settlement
ricordo, l'idea mi affascinava
spazio, esplorazione | storia
::: universetoday
Facebook facing mounting questions over massive data leak
Facebook | privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: emenietti
MedBunker - Le scomode verità: Tre piccioni con un Tweet
social media
::: MauroV1968
It appears AWS has renamed its Elasticsearch derivative - Will we see a dismissal of the trademark suit soon?
Amazon
::: pchestek
Apple Working on Combined TV Box, Speaker to Revive Home Efforts
Apple
::: Slashdot
China’s first facial recognition case raises more questions than it answers
riconoscimento facciale, sorveglianza | Cina
::: fabiochiusi
Statement of FSF board on election of Richard Stallman (RMS)
open source
::: fsf ::: smaffulli
Huawei To Invest $1 Billion on Car Tech It Says Surpasses Tesla
automazione
::: Slashdot
NSA urges applying critical Microsoft patches released today, as exploitation of these #vulnerabilities could allow persistent access and control of enterprise networks
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: NSACyber
Editoriale sul China Daily (!!!) sui rischi per la privacy derivanti dall'uso del riconoscimento facciale. Che sia ora che l'UE si svegli, e approvi una buona volta una moratoria?
riconoscimento facciale, sorveglianza
::: fabiochiusi
Billions of Smartphone Owners Will Soon Be Authorizing Payments Using Facial Recognition
riconoscimento facciale, sorveglianza
::: Slashdot
Many believe that the field of AI is the answer to the question "how can we create artificial (human) minds?". That's also the question that led me here. But today, I think AI is more pragmatically the answer to the question: "how can we make software do more?"
artificial intelligence
::: fchollet
Go home Python, you’re drunk
Python
::: nedbat
We are happy to announce our first point-release with many fixes of our @ManjaroLinux 20.1 release series we named Ornara
Linux distro
::: ManjaroLinux
Shortwave 2.0 Arrives with GTK 4 Port, Slick Mini-Player Mode
applicazioni, programmi
::: dcavedon
Considering writing my own assembler and linker because the primary bottleneck in my compiler test suite seems to be launching processes to run nasm and ld
programming, codice, snippet
::: wilbowma ::: wilbowma ::: wilbowma
Thanks @SymPy that we can achieve eye/result.n3 at master · josd/eye
programming, codice, snippet | Python
::: josderoo
1/Molto interessante iniziativa che coinvolge diversi giornali europei per conoscere cosa pensano i/le giovani su pandemia e futuro. Tuttavia, 2 domande della versione @LaStampa mi hanno colpita e sono andata a confrontarle con spagnola, inglese e tedesca
giornali, stampa
::: timetit
Australia's NDIS Gets a Government App With Blockchain But No Ethics
riconoscimento facciale, sorveglianza | bitcoin, blockchain e crypto*
::: Slashdot
WhatsApp's new privacy policy is so bad it might be illegal
::: dcavedon
The Global Business of Professional Trolling
trolls, disinformazione
::: Slashdot
NAME:WRECK Vulnerabilities Impact Millions of Smart and Industrial Devices
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot
Inspur, China's Largest Cloud Hardware Vendor, Joins Open-Source Patent Consortium
open source | cloud
::: Slashdot
Security Researcher Drops Chrome and Edge Exploit on Twitter
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot
Supporting the Python community by "Shifting Left"
Huge kudos to Bloomberg!
Python
::: SeanTMcGinnis
Facebook knew of Honduran president’s manipulation campaign – and let it continue for 11 months
Facebook | politica
::: oliviasolon
I got a leak of the European Commission's upcoming AI laws. The Commission wants to ban certain uses of high-risk artificial intelligence systems and only allow risky AI tech into the EU’s internal market if it has been vetted
artificial intelligence | Unione Europea
::: Melissahei
Build a Raspberry Pi Linux System the Hard Way
hardware | programming, codice, snippet
::: dcavedon
New EU Regulation on high risk AI leaked - a thread
artificial intelligence | Unione Europea
::: benwagne_r ::: djleufer
This tweet got me to thinking: is there a way to show just how broken the FSF is as an organization? Is there a way to show how their board isn't really a functioning board, but rather an enabling body for RMS? Turns out, there is! And I will show you in *four* tweets
open source
::: therealfitz ::: therealfitz ::: jasoncwarner
I feel like this tweet answers the question I sometimes get of “how do you learn all this stuff?”
programming, codice, snippet
::: lexi_lambda
Qualche giorno fa Xi Jinping ha fatto un discorso contro le frodi su internet. Quindi i media cinesi hanno scritto molto dei furti di identità ad es volti per approvazione riconoscimento facciale. In #Cina è in atto una vera e propria condanna ufficiale per la raccolta dei dati >
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus | Cina
::: simopieranni
Se la complessità degli eventi ci indurrà a delegare le decisioni più importanti all'intelligenza artificiale (che non potrà nemmeno spiegare il perché suggerisce, a causa dell'insufficienza delle capacità umane) saremo a una svolta senza precedenti nella storia dell'Umanità 🧵
artificial intelligence
::: AlienoGentile
Le crypto volevano aprire il sistema finanziario come una scatoletta di tonno. Ma il loro successo sta arrivando integrandosi con esso.
bitcoin, blockchain e crypto*
::: AlienoGentile
Git implemented in 1,000 lines of JavaScript by @maryrosecook
programming, codice, snippet
::: migueldeicaza
